IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973UT021007
  • User Pedon ID: S1973UT021007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1973UT021007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 73C0086
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44720
  • Print Date: 4/28/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 38S
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: 200 yards southeast of Bill Thorley cabin on Thorley Point
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT053—Washington
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT634—Iron-Washington Area, Utah, Parts of Iron, Kane, and Washington Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brasher, Olsen, Crandall and party
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic Cryic Pachic Paleborolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/2005
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sk
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landform: plateau
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10K33B3
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ASTER

    BRTE

    POPR

    TRIFO

    Aster

    Bromus tectorum

    Poa pratensis

    Trifolium

    aster

    cheatgrass

    Kentucky bluegrass

    clover

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    5

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    2743

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    45

    572

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    60

    1.1

    12.2

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00593. noncalcareous
    A3—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00594. noncalcareous
    B1—30 to 76 centimeters (11.8 to 29.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00595. noncalcareous
    Bt21—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; thick clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00596. noncalcareous; continuous - phpvsfiid 293051; continuous - phpvsfiid 293051
    Bt22—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; thick clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00597. noncalcareous; continuous - phpvsfiid 293052; continuous - phpvsfiid 293052
    2B3—122 to 147 centimeters (48.0 to 57.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), dry; clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent fine distinct 2.5Y 2/2 (2.5Y 2/2), moist, manganese masses; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # 73C00598. noncalcareous